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Australia’s Tropical Rivers Data Collation Project

In response to the need to better understand Australia’s tropical river systems, this project aimed collating available datasets relating to Australia’s Tropical Rivers; and to then produce a set of relevant information suitable for upload to the Australian Natural Resources Atlas.

Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project

The Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project was a multiple-stakeholder and multiple-disciplinary initiative in northern Australia that sought to treat the wetlands and waterways within Australia’s two northern drainage divisions as one region with common issues surrounding the biota, hydro-geomorphology and management.

This project aimed to:

Water allocation to River Murray wetlands: a basin-wide modeling approach

The primary aim of this project was to relate the water regime preferences of wetland plants to hydrology throughout the Murray River Basin and to predict the volume of additional water required to achieve optimal plant species diversity. This report details the methods and key findings of the project which examined the impact of regulation and changes in water allocation on the community composition of wetland plants through the Murray River basin. Due to a lack of primary data, it deals (more)...

Watering wetlands, Impediments and challenges to the transfer of knowledge between wetland managers and scientists

The degradation of Australia’s wetlands has brought into sharp focus the need to manage factors such as altered flow and water regimes. Exchanging knowledge between wetland managers and wetland scientists and putting knowledge into practice is an essential part of this management. Yet environmental watering of wetlands is a relatively new type of intervention, especially where engineering infrastructure is used. It is largely restricted to south eastern Australia. Thus, while there is (more)...

Knowledge Synthesis for Watering Wetlands

This project, by Mark Siebentritt aimed to produce a discussion paper outlining the current scientific knowledge with respect to watering wetlands, the extent to which water resource and wetland managers have access to this scientific information and the impediments they face in putting the information into practice.

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Ecology and management of the Lake Wellington wetlands, Gippsland Lakes

A report on the R&D project, 2003-2006

This handbook summarises the results of a four-year R&D project undertaken by staff at Victoria University and Monash University on the wetlands that fringe Lake Wellington in the Gippsland Lakes of south-eastern Victoria.

Trialing a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the regional level

The logoons of the outer Darwin area, NT - Final milestone report

The project presented in this Final Milestone Report is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. Indicator Themes 1-5 (catchment disturbance, physical disturbance, hydrological disturbance and the fringing zone) were reported on in detail in Milestone Report 2 for all of the lagoons in the (more)...

Matter for target inland aquatic ecosystem integrity – wetlands

Development of National Indicators for Wetland Ecosystem Extent, Distribution and Condition – Final report

Wetlands are an important part of the natural landscape, providing provisional (food and water), regulatory (floods, droughts), supporting (soil formation, nutrient cycling), and cultural (recreational, spiritual) ecosystem services. In recent years the design of wetland monitoring programs has become more robust, with a greater emphasis on the purpose of the program and an understanding of the functions, drivers, processes and pressures operating in (more)...

The lagoons of the outer Darwin area, NT. Milestone 2 report

Trialling a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the Regional level – Milestone report 2

The project presented in this Milestone Report 2 is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. The extent and distribution component of the lagoons in the Darwin region is now completed and presented as mapping based on Quickbird Imagery. Wetland condition indicators were selected on the basis of data availability for the nationally (more)...

The lagoons of the outer Darwin area, NT. Milestone 1 report

Trialling a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the Regional level – Milestone report 1

The project presented in this report trials the framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. The extent and distribution of the lagoons in the Darwin region is presented as mapping based on Quickbird Imagery. As the mapping process took more time than anticipated, the final mapping of all lagoons in the study area will be presented in the Final Milestone Report. This report presents the extent and distribution of 31 (more)...